Thank you James!

From: James Keener [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 8:34 AM
To: Hartman, David W. - Tech Library; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Koha] Koha Security - can someone provide a description of the 
encryption?

Im not a dev or even a power use, so believe them over me.

The security of patron records is on you. You need to ensure physical security. 
You need to set up TLS for connections. You need to encrypt the volume the 
database resides on. (May be overkill and you will take a performance hit, but 
the option is there.)

Also, your records are only as secure as your back ups are physically and with 
respect to encryption.

Encrypted records would be such a problem with respect to proper key management 
that I can see koha doing that.

I'm sure all user passwords are hashed, not encrypted, with a strong hash 
function, as is tech industry standard.

You're also free to peak inside the database to see how records are stored.

Jim


On July 15, 2015 8:18:25 AM EDT, "Hartman, David W. - Tech Library" 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Hello!

  I was wondering what type of encryption is in Koha for patron records.  I 
just want to let my leadership know the data is secured.

David W. Hartman

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